Radio Song · Superbus

89 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 41-55 and 73-79 -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
RADIO SONG · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 32, 40, 56 and 4 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 10 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHEQSC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radio Song?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Radio Song hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Radio Song?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 32, 40, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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